Looks like California’s Democratic Lieutenant Governor is settling into his new job as a media guy and host of Current TV’s “The Gavin Newsom Show.” Right out of the gate in his first show this week, Newsom broke a juicy scoop in his interview with multiple Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who said he’s “done” dealing with doping allegations in the biking world.

Interesting thing is that the Lt. Gov’s show — sure to be tracked by GOP operatives, looking for juicy quotes — is apparently already getting tracked by Hollywood sites like TMZ.com. They picked up and reported his Lance Armstrong interview this week, as did sports and national outlets.
Here’s that clip:

The marathon biker candidly complained to Newsom that he’s already submitted to “500-500 doping controls…and they’re all negative.”
“I’m not wasting any more of my time talking about it,” he told Newsom.
But Newsom also promises to talk to celebs of the tech world. His follow up was a conversation about success and failure with Google guru Marissa Mayer; she let loose with some personal thoughts about her job at the firm — just as it announced some new search engine tricks this week.
Here’s a look:

The former San Francisco Mayor’s asked Mayer about the secrets of Google’s success — a willingness to try new things and to fail — and how it’s reflected in her own life.

“I think the one most important part of failure is being able to learn from it — and to be able to learn from it, you have to be able to diagnose when it happened, figure out what you learned from it and move on,” she told him.

“When I think about the mistakes we’ve made over the years, interestingly to me, failure and speed are inherently linked — there have been times when your products have failed because they haven’t been fast enough,” she said. “Failure is totally okay — as long as you fail fast.”

Newsom’s one hour weekly show hasn’t isn’t even officially on the air yet: the show premieres Friday at 11 p.m. EST/8 p.m. PST on San Francisco-based Current TV, founded by former Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt.